On Sunday 29th September, the Bristol Short Film Showcase at Watershed celebrated the vibrancy of the local film talent we have here in Bristol UNESCO City of Film, with a programme of new and recently made shorts from Bristol filmmakers.

The line-up included Rapture, a comedy-drama about following your own path, Beltane, a cautionary stop-motion folk-horror and Distressing Images, a psychological horror starring Michael Socha (The Gallows Pole, This is England).  Plus The Babka and Boys Like You, films from two of the city’s most prominent filmmaking talents, Michael Jenkins and Paul Holbrook.

Images courtesy Maddy Probst, Watershed

The full line up was as follows (click on the link to read more about each short):

Rapture, dir: Em Smith, 11 mins
Beltane, dir: Helena Houghton, 5 mins
Distressing Images, dir: Sam Dawe, 15 mins
The Babka, dir: Michael Jenkins, 15 mins
Off Cuts, dir: Ben Steiner, 4 mins
Not Surgery Hours, dir: Tia Salisbury, 7 mins
Boys Like You, dir: Paul Holbrook, 17 mins

Our thanks to Film Hub South West and BFI Network South West for putting this programme together.

A number of the films were made possible thanks to Lottery funding from BFI Network South West. View their South West shorts trailers and catalogue here.

Find out more about recent work from emerging Bristol filmmaking talent on our Watch page.